South Africa invites tenders to study establishment of soda ash production

5:39 AM MST | February 21, 2014 | Natasha Alperowicz

Industrial Development Corp. (IDC; Sandton, South Africa), a government owned finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development, has issued a request for proposals to carry out a pre-feasibility study to establish a soda ash manufacturing plant in South Africa, the country’s first such facility. “The chemicals SBU has identified the manufacture of soda ash—key component in glass, detergent and chemicals manufacture, as one of the import replacement initiatives of the industry. For this purpose, the SBU is...